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==Nineveh was a port city== | ==Nineveh was a port city== | ||
65 Oh, yes. God kept him alive three days and nights. And we find him then. And we was told that all the Ninevites had turned away from God and went to worshipping animals, which is a heathen trait, and they was… Most all around Nineveh, it was on the seashore, so the occupation was fishing. And the god of the sea was the whale. He was the largest specie in the—in the ocean, and that was the god of the ocean. | 65 Oh, yes. God kept him alive three days and nights. And we find him then. And we was told that all the Ninevites had turned away from God and went to worshipping animals, which is a heathen trait, and they was… Most all around '''Nineveh, it was on the seashore''', so the occupation was fishing. And the god of the sea was the whale. He was the largest specie in the—in the ocean, and that was the god of the ocean. <ref>William Branham, 61-0515 - A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, para. 65</ref> | ||
==The people in Nineveh saw the whale spit out Jonah== | ==The people in Nineveh saw the whale spit out Jonah== | ||
''I want to show you something now, show where God knows what He’s talking about. Now, the people of Nineveh… That was a big city about a half a million people, pretty near the size of St. Louis, Missouri. And they were heathens. They were in all kinds of sin. They worshipped animals, and idols, and everything, and they were—their occupation were fishermen. And so the whale was the god of the sea. So all of them was out about eleven o’clock fishing, all the fishermen pulling their nets out there in the sea, and the first thing you know, '''up come the sea god, the whale. Run up to the bank, licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right out on the bank.''' Sure they repented. God knows what to do. God knows how to do things to people who wants to believe. See? '''Jonah wasn’t out of the will of God.''' See, the whale god spit the prophet right out on the bank. Sure they’re going to believe his message. And there he come out.<ref>William Branham, 62-0725 - A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, para. 68</ref> | |||
I want to show you something now, show where God knows what He’s talking about. Now, the people of Nineveh… That was a big city about a half a million people, pretty near the size of St. Louis, Missouri. And they were heathens. They were in all kinds of sin. They worshipped animals, and idols, and everything, and they were—their occupation were fishermen. And so the whale was the god of the sea. So all of them was out about eleven o’clock fishing, all the fishermen pulling their nets out there in the sea, and the first thing you know, '''up come the sea god, the whale. Run up to the bank, licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right out on the bank.''' Sure they repented. God knows what to do. God knows how to do things to people who wants to believe. See? '''Jonah wasn’t out of the will of God.''' See, the whale god spit the prophet right out on the bank. Sure they’re going to believe his message. And there he come out.<ref>William Branham, 62-0725 - A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, para. 68</ref> | |||
''Jonah, the prophet, was a sign. His sign was when he spit, the whale spit him out upon the bank, that was a sign. Them people were heathens, fished for a living. And '''they seen the whale-god come in, this god of the sea, and take the prophet and spit him out upon the bank''', to give the message, and down the bank he went. There was the sign. Now the Voice was, “Repent or perish!” Before God struck that nation, to tear it to pieces and sink it beneath the sea, He sent a prophet with His Word. He gave a sign, a supernatural sign.<ref>William Branham, 64-0214 - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 110</ref> | ''Jonah, the prophet, was a sign. His sign was when he spit, the whale spit him out upon the bank, that was a sign. Them people were heathens, fished for a living. And '''they seen the whale-god come in, this god of the sea, and take the prophet and spit him out upon the bank''', to give the message, and down the bank he went. There was the sign. Now the Voice was, “Repent or perish!” Before God struck that nation, to tear it to pieces and sink it beneath the sea, He sent a prophet with His Word. He gave a sign, a supernatural sign.<ref>William Branham, 64-0214 - The Voice Of The Sign, para. 110</ref> | ||
==Jonah walked right out of the whale and started preaching in Nineveh== | |||
''You know what God did? He must’ve put a oxygen tank or something in there. He kept that prophet alive for three days and nights, and took him on a ride, all the way across the ocean to Nineveh. Nineveh was a large city, many thousands of people. They were idol worshipers, and they worshipped gods, and their great god was the god of the sea, the whale. All of them were fishermen. Here they was out there pulling their nets, sinful as the United States is now, and the first thing you know, in come the whale (He was a god to them.), opened up his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and the prophet walked off like a gang plank. There come the god, spitting the prophet out. No wonder… See, God had to do it that way. God knows what He’s doing. No wonder they repented at the preaching of Noah—or Jonah. Because why? That he was… The whale god spit him out on the bank. The prophet walked right out of the whale’s mouth and begin to preach. Sure they repented. God does things in supernatural ways, His wonders to perform—certainly.<ref>William Branham, 58-0625 - A Greater Than Solomon Is Here, para. 33</ref> | |||
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